Maybe most of you already knows it, but I think it is *very* important to spread this message around Free Software community. So please sorry if you receive this twice.
On 20 July 2001 Alan Cox announced his resignation from USENIX committee in protest for Dimitry Sklyarov arrest on 16 July 2001.
Please found his announcment here: http://ezhe.ru/elcomsoft/cox.html
Please follow Alan Cox suggestions. Thank you very much mr. Cox!
Dimitry is a russian programmer who found the way to decrypt Adobe e-books. He went in USA for Defcon 9 conferece. He was arrested after the conference for DMCA (Digital Millenium Copiright Act) infringment.
Please find further material here: http://ezhe.ru/elcomsoft/
It seems a joke: a russian arrested in the USA for for allowing readers to exercise their rights. Obviously they call him a "pirate": sometimes words are worse than swords.
How much it will took to see USA scientists (programmers *are* scientists) to ask for political asylum around the world?
Good bye USA!